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  1. The Medieval Theater of Cruelty
    Rhetoric, Memory, Violence
    Author: Enders, Jody
    Published: [2018]; © 2002
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle... more

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    Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501720857
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Drama, Medieval; Theater; Violence in literature; Violence in the theater; Mittelfranzösisch; Gewalt <Motiv>; Altfranzösisch; Drama; Theater
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  2. The Medieval Theater of Cruelty
    Rhetoric, Memory, Violence
    Author: Enders, Jody
    Published: [2018]; © 2002
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle... more

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    Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain

     

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    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501720857
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Drama, Medieval; Theater; Violence in literature; Violence in the theater; Mittelfranzösisch; Gewalt <Motiv>; Altfranzösisch; Drama; Theater
    Scope: 1 online resource, 3 halftones
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)